Forrester

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Accelerate Business Change With The Right BPM Tools And Technologies

Tools And Technology: The Business Process Management Playbook

Today, business process management (BPM) excellence programs can choose from a variety of technology options to deliver process improvement across the enterprise. Forrester currently segments the BPM...

• Downloads: 414
• Rating:

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Embrace Five Disruptive Trends That Will Reshape BPM Excellence

Future Look: The Business Process Management Playbook

Enterprise architects leading business process management (BPM) excellence initiatives live at the crossroads of business strategy and process execution, providing BPM insights to technologists and...

• Downloads: 675
• Rating:

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Open Source And Cloud-Based Integration Trends

A Recent Forrester Survey Shows Divergent Plans

Open source and cloud-based integration solutions are becoming more prevalent in many organizations. Still, many others are resisting these new alternatives, sometimes based on rational concerns but...

• Downloads: 747
• Comments: 4

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Integration Competency Center Best Practices

Lessons Learned By Firms That Have Implemented One

Creating an effective integration competency center (ICC) requires considerable upfront planning and coordination to succeed. To maximize your chances of success, take advantage of the lessons...

• Downloads: 346

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Cloud Computing Road Map For Enterprise Architects

The purpose of this road map is to illustrate the implementation timing of the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technologies evaluated in Forrester's...

• Downloads: 172

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:2011 Integration Survey, Part Two: The Calm Before The Storm

The Current Vendor Landscape And How Open Source Will Change It

A wide range of vendors provides organizations with a complex array of commercial integration products and services. Forrester recently surveyed 167 application development and enterprise...

• Downloads: 577

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Seven Top Integration Trends For 2011 To 2012

The Need For Speed, Services, And SaaS Is Shaping The Integration Future

Integration remains a high priority for enterprises in 2011 to 2012, leading Forrester to mine client inquiries and interview industry experts for insight into the latest integration trends....

• Downloads: 1747
• Rating:

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Integration Competency Centers Help Large Enterprises Solve Integration Complexity

Integration competency centers (ICCs) have proven to be key catalysts for integration project success, and IT organizations are deploying them in growing numbers. However, the size and mission of the...

• Downloads: 364

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Evolution Of Integration Alternatives

This presentation provides some perspective on how integration tools have evolved over the past few years, resulting in significant functional overlap in many cases. It explains the simultaneous...

• Downloads: 54

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Comprehensive Integration Solutions, Q4 2010

Oracle, IBM, TIBCO Software, And Software AG Lead The Field

Forrester evaluated 15 leading comprehensive integration solution (CIS) vendors against 137 criteria that reflect the requirements of application development and delivery professionals. We found that...

• Downloads: 2103

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Inquiry Spotlight: Integration Inquiries Are Up 34% Over The Previous Year

An Improving Economic Outlook And Upgrade Plans Are The Key Drivers

Integration is still a hot topic for many enterprises, and this has led to a 34% increase in integration-related inquiries during the past 12 months compared with the previous year. This increasing...

• Downloads: 277

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:It's Time To Tame The ERP Integration Beast

Meeting ERP Integration Needs Inside And Outside The Enterprise

Integration challenges are often the foremost obstacle to getting the full value from packaged enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions. Strategies for overcoming this obstacle vary considerably...

• Downloads: 1152

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The CIS Reference Architecture Model

Part Two Of A Two-Part Series On Integration Solution Architecture Models

Comprehensive integration solutions (CISes) are suites of tools that provide the broadest array of internal and external integration capabilities available in the market today. As such, they are...

• Downloads: 1106

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:What IBM-Lombardi Means To Application Development Professionals

BPM Technology Will Be Much More Prominent; You Need A Plan For It

IBM's acquisition of Lombardi Software is key to its plan to take business process management suites (BPMSes) from their current niche as a sometimes-used tool for developing and delivering...

• Downloads: 598

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:2010 Update: Evaluating Integration Alternatives

Enterprises Face A Growing Need For A Unified Integration Competency Center

Just as in 2009, technical innovation and merger and acquisition (M&A) activity have continued to have a significant impact on the integration space. The most common trend has been the expansion of...

• Downloads: 1824

For CIO Professionals

Report:Market Overview: The Middleware Software Market, 2009

Software AG And TIBCO Challenge IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, And SAP

The middleware software market went through a sequence of paradigm changes in the past three decades. Most vendors offer middleware portfolios with various software components from basic application...

• Downloads: 1264

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Should You Build, Buy, Rent, Or Download Your Integration Capability?

Forrester's Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) Highlights Issues With The Build Approach

The old "buy versus build" dilemma is more complicated than ever, especially when considering the different options for obtaining integration functionality. While packaged integration solutions have...

• Downloads: 848

For CIO Professionals

Report:Market Momentum: Middleware Software Market, H2 2008 And H1 2009

Middleware Vendors Must Fight For Awareness In A Consolidating Market While Offering Cloud Innovations

Forrester's market momentum data includes mergers and acquisitions (M&A), product, partnership, and strategy/go-to-market announcements. A trend analysis provides vendors with important background...

• Downloads: 348

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:TechRadar™ For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals: Cloud Computing, Q3 2009

As Much Diversity Of Maturity Across Categories As Confusion Among Them

The No. 1 challenge in cloud computing today is determining what it really is. What categories of services exist within the definition and business model, and how ready are these options for...

• Downloads: 3047

For CIO Professionals

Report:The Tier One Middleware Vendors

A SWOT Analysis Of The Leading Business Process Platform Vendors: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, And SAP

The four largest traditional software vendors — IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP — compete around business process platform software. This broader software segment covers all the...

• Downloads: 1246

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:With "11g," Oracle Steps Out Of IBM's Middleware Shadow

New Release Will Also Blast Past SAP NetWeaver And Challenge Microsoft

The latest release of Oracle Fusion Middleware, dubbed "11g," establishes Oracle as the innovator among Java platform vendors. The first modules of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g — the core Java...

• Downloads: 967

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Selecting A Comprehensive Integration Solution

This presentation discusses the factors that should be considered when choosing a comprehensive integration solution. Refer to the recent Forrester document entitled "Create An Enterprise Integration...

• Downloads: 10

For CIO Professionals

Report:Integration Vendors: Make Your Q4 Goals

The German Market Indicates Potential For International Middleware Vendors

Forrester provides annual forecasts for IT market spending, including the software market for Europe and North America. As Germany is an important market for middleware and integration software, we...

• Downloads: 220

For CIO Professionals

Report:Market Momentum: Middleware Software Market, H1 2008

The middleware software market continues to mature — from the bottom of the technology stack to the higher layers. A set of 15 representative vendors announced a healthy mix of new product...

• Downloads: 419

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Use A Comprehensive Set Of Criteria When Selecting An IC-BPMS Tool

Targeting Products That Support Integration, BPM, And SOA Efforts

Integration-centric business process management suites (IC-BPMSes) are the most comprehensive tools available to assist enterprises with their service-oriented-architecture-based (SOA-based) business...

• Downloads: 998